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Quantum Metrology: an Information-Theoretic Perspective Quantum metrology: An information-theoretic perspective in three two lectures Carlton M. Caves Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico http://info.phys.unm.edu/~caves Center for Quantum Information and Control Quantum metrology: An information-theoretic perspective Lecture 1 I. Introduction. What’s the problem? II. Squeezed states and optical interferometry III. Ramsey interferometry, cat states, and spin squeezing Carlton M. Caves Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico http://info.phys.unm.edu/~caves Center for Quantum Information and Control I. Introduction. What’s the problem? View from Cape Hauy Tasman Peninsula Tasmania Quantum information science A new way of thinking Computer science Computational complexity depends on physical law. New physics Old physics Quantum mechanics as liberator. Quantum mechanics as nag. What can be accomplished with The uncertainty principle quantum systems that can’t be restricts what can be done. done in a classical world? Explore what can be done with quantum systems, instead of being satisfied with what Nature hands us. Quantum engineering Metrology Taking the measure of things The heart of physics New physics Quantum mechanics as Old physics liberator. Quantum Explore what can be mechanics as nag. done with quantum The uncertainty systems, instead of principle being satisfied with restricts what can what Nature hands us. be done. Quantum engineering Old conflict in new guise Measuring a classical parameter Phase shift in an (optical) interferometer Readout of anything that changes optical path lengths Michelson-Morley experiment Gravitational-wave detection Planck-scale, holographic uncertainties in positions Torque on or free precession of a collection of spins Magnetometer Atomic clock Lectures 1 and 2 Force on a linear system Gravitational-wave detection Accelerometer Gravity gradiometer Electrometer Lecture 3 Strain meter II. Squeezed states and optical interferometry Oljeto Wash Southern Utah (Absurdly) high-precision interferometry Hanford, Washington The LIGO Collaboration, Rep. Prog. Phys. 72, 076901 (2009). Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) 4 km Livingston, Louisiana (Absurdly) high-precision interferometry Initial LIGO Hanford, Washington Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) High-power, Fabry- Perot-cavity 4 km (multipass), power- recycled interferometers Livingston, Louisiana (Absurdly) high-precision interferometry Advanced LIGO Hanford, Washington Currently a factor of 3 short of this design goal. Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) High-power, Fabry- Perot-cavity 4 km (multipass), power- and signal-recycled, squeezed-light interferometers Livingston, Louisiana Mach-Zender interferometer C. M. Caves, PRD 23, 1693 (1981). Squeezed states of light Squeezed states of light Groups at Australian National University, Hannover, and Squeezing by a factor of about 3.5 Tokyo have achieved up to 15 dB of squeezing at audio G. Breitenbach, S. Schiller, and J. Mlynek, frequencies for use in Advanced LIGO, VIRGO, and GEO. Nature 387, 471 (1997). Fabry-Perot Michelson interferometer Motion of the mirrors produced by a gravitational wave induces a transition from the symmetric mode to the antisymmetric mode; the resulting tiny signal at the vacuum port is contaminated by quantum noise that entered the vacuum port. Squeezed states and optical interferometry K. Goda, O. Miyakawa, E. E. Mikhailov, S. Saraf. R. Adhikari, K. McKenzie, R. Ward, S. Vass, A. J. Weinstein, and N. Mavalvala, Nature Physics 4, 472 (2008). 44% improvement in displacement sensitivity Squeezed states for optical interferometry H. Vahlbruch, A. Khalaidovski, N. Lastzka, C. Graef, K. Danzmann, and R. Schnabel, Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084027 (2010). 9dB below shot noise from 10 Hz to 10 kHz Squeezed states and optical interferometry GEO 600 laser interferometer The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Nature Physics 7, 962 (2011). Up to 3.5dB improvement in sensitivity in the shot-noise- limited frequency band Squeezed states and optical interferometry ~ 2 dB of shot-noise reduction Squeezed light in the LIGO Hanford detector The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Nat. Phot. 7, 613 (2013). Quantum limits on optical interferometry Quantum Noise Limit (Shot-Noise Limit) As much power in the squeezed Heisenberg Limit light as in the main beam III. Ramsey interferometry, cat states, and spin squeezing Truchas from East Pecos Baldy Sangre de Cristo Range Northern New Mexico Ramsey interferometry N independent “atoms” Frequency measurement Time measurement Clock synchronization Cat-state Ramsey interferometry J. J. Bollinger, W. M. Itano, D. J. Wineland, and D. J. Heinzen, Phys. Rev. A 54, R4649 (1996). Fringe pattern with period 2π/N N cat-state atoms Optical interferometry Ramsey interferometry Quantum Noise Limit (Shot-Noise Limit) Heisenberg Limit Something’s going on here. Squeezed-state optical Cat-state Ramsey interferometry interferometry Entanglement before “beamsplitter” Between arms Between atoms (wave or modal entanglement) (particle entanglement) Between photons Between arms (particle entanglement) (modal entanglement) Squeezed-state optical Cat-state Ramsey interferometry interferometry Entanglement after “beamsplitter” Between arms Between atoms (wave or modal entanglement) (particle entanglement) Between photons Between arms (particle entanglement) (modal entanglement) Spin-squeezing Ramsey interferometry J. Ma, X. Wang, C. P. Sun, and F. Nori, Phys. Rep. 509, 89‒165 (2011). Heisenberg Limit This is really a cat state. Spin-squeezing Ramsey interferometry What’s squeezed? The +y spin state has N particles; the –y spin state has single-mode squeezing. This is like the state of the two arms prior to the beamsplitter in an optical interferometer. The up and down spin states have correlated squeezing like that in the arms of a squeezed-state optical interferometer. What’s entangled? No entanglement of +y and –y spin states. Modal entanglement of up and down spin states. Particle entanglement. Squeezed-state optical Spin-squeezing Ramsey interferometry interferometry Entanglement Between arms Between atoms (wave or modal entanglement) (particle entanglement) Between photons Between arms (particle entanglement) (modal entanglement) Role of entanglement Entanglement is a resource … for getting my paper into Nature. Don’t accept facile explanations. Ask questions. Transition Telling stories is what physics is about. Lecture 1 has been about understanding fringe patterns and sources of noise and designing devices to improve phase sensitivity based on this understanding. This is telling stories. Lecture 2 is about proving that the stories aren’t fooling us. Which is better, stories or proofs? You need them both, but stories are going to get you farther. Quantum metrology: An information-theoretic perspective Lecture 2 I. Quantum Cramér-Rao Bound (QCRB) II. Making quantum limits relevant. Loss and decoherence III. Beyond the Heisenberg limit. Nonlinear interferometry Carlton M. Caves Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico http://info.phys.unm.edu/~caves Center for Quantum Information and Control Transition Telling stories is what physics is about. Lecture 1 has been about understanding fringe patterns and sources of noise and designing devices to improve phase sensitivity based on this understanding. This is telling stories. Lecture 2 is about proving that the stories aren’t fooling us. Which is better, stories or proofs? You need them both, but stories are going to get you farther. I. Quantum Cramér-Rao Bound (QCRB) Cable Beach Western Australia Quantum information version of interferometry Quantum noise limit Quantum circuits cat state N = 3 Heisenberg limit Fringe pattern with period 2π/N Cat-state interferometer State Measurement preparation Single- parameter estimation S. L. Braunstein, C. M. Caves, and G. J. Milburn, Ann. Phys. 247, 135 (1996). Heisenberg V. Giovannetti, S. Lloyd, and L. Maccone, PRL 96, 041401 (2006). S. Boixo, S. T. Flammia, C. M. Caves, and JM Geremia, PRL 98, 090401 (2007). limit Separable inputs Generalized uncertainty principle Quantum Cramér-Rao bound Achieving the Heisenberg limit cat Proof of state QCRB Is it entanglement? It’s the entanglement, stupid. But what about? For metrology, entanglement is part of the story, but only part. We need a generalized notion of entanglement/resources that includes information about the physical situation, particularly the relevant Hamiltonian. II. Making quantum limits relevant. Loss and decoherence Bungle Bungle Range Western Australia Making quantum limits relevant Quantum circuits The serial resource, T, and The serial resource, T, and the parallel resource, N, are the parallel resource, N, are equivalent and not equivalent and not interchangeable, interchangeable, physically. mathematically. Information science Physics perspective perspective Distinctions between different Platform independence physical systems Making quantum limits relevant. One metrology story A. Shaji and C. M. Caves, PRA 76, 032111 (2007). Making quantum limits relevant Rule of thumb for photon losses for large N S. Knysh, V. N. Smelyanskiy and G. A. Durkin, PRA 83, 021804(R) (2011). Heisenberg limit: less than one photon lost. Typically, beat shot noise by square of root of fractional loss. Quantum limit on practical optical interferometry 1. Cheap photons from a laser (coherent state) 2. Low, but nonzero losses on the detection timescale
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